In 2017, Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) – a flagship project of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – was unveiled as a symbol of national progress. Promising faster cargo transport, reduced costs, and modernity, sleek images
We’re proud to announce that Fiona Katherine Naeem has now published her PhD dissertation Pamiri Lifeworlds: Narratives of Rupture in Gorno-Badakhshon Autonomous Oblast, Tajikistan. The book is currently available from De Gruyter Brill.
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Living through imperial border disputes resulting
Does China’s growing role in Eastern Europe challenge the EU’s approach to promoting development in the region? Tanja Börzel, Julia Langbein, Lunting Wu & Valentin Krüsmann explore this question in their latest open-access article in the journal Global Policy.
From Khalisa Sarkar Land to Land Reforms: Legal Liminality, State Control, and Resistance in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Nadia Ali’s latest article explores how infrastructural expansion under the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), alongside growing state and private interests in tourism and mineral
We shall see for ourselves what are China’s intention towards us.
We shall not be told by others.
Julius K. Nyerere, first president of Tanzania.1
1 In: Christopher C. Liundi. Quotable Quotes Of Mwalimu Julius K Nyerere: Collected from …
We are delighted to anounce that Dr. Ibrahima Niang (Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar/ZMO, Berlin) will give the next Silk Road Talk on 25 October from 4.15 to 5.45 p.m. The lecture will take place in the Department of Asian …
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is one of the biggest projects in transportation, freight, road, rail, air, and maritime linkage in the history of the world, but it concerns itself inadequately with road
China is purchasing stakes in strategic ports across the European Union (EU) with varying dynamics observable in each deal, including its latest purchase at Germany’s Hamburg Harbor. China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO – one of the
